Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley (1926–2016) was an English
barrister and judge. He was the original co-author of Goff & Jones, the
leading English law textbook on restitution and unjust enrichment, first
published in 1966. He practised as a commercial barrister from 1951 to
1975, and then began his career as a judge. He was appointed to the
Judicial Committee of the House of Lords in 1986 and was Senior Lord of
Appeal in Ordinary from 1996 until his retirement in 1998. Goff long
advocated a complementary view of the roles of the legal academic and
judge. The former Lord Justice of Appeal Stephen Tomlinson said that "no
judge has done more than Robert to ensure that the views of legal
academic commentators now regularly inform the decision-making in our
higher courts". For building bridges between judges in the United
Kingdom and Germany, Goff was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal
Republic of Germany (First Class).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goff,_Baron_Goff_of_Chieveley>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1806:
Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed
five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo in the
Caribbean Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Domingo>
1819:
British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan
Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the
East India Company.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_of_modern_Singapore>
1951:
A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in
Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge_train_derailment>
1987:
Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice
of the High Court of Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gaudron>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
koha:
1. (New Zealand) A Māori tradition of reciprocal giving of gifts.
2. (New Zealand, by extension) A voluntary donation given for a service
that has been provided.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/koha>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other.
I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity,
sickness and health. I've seen the depths of suffering and the peaks of
triumph. And I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right
will always eventually triumph, and that there is purpose and worth to
each and every life.
--Ronald Reagan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan>